The thing that got me started on this Billion Monkeys photo themselves thing was a poster, advertising Malta. After that I started photo-ing this kind of thing deliberately, although I later found out that I had already taken quite a few such photos already without realising it.

Mostly the people I snap snapping themselves are visitors to the great city of London, here to observe our great sights and beauty spots, and to record their presence in front of them. You seldom see a Real Photographer doing this kind of thing, but now that big Real Photographer type cameras are starting to be acquired by Billion Monkey type photographers and are now being used for this kind of snapping a lot.

Here are forty eight of my favourite snaps in this genre. For the benefit of those who don’t want to be looking at all forty eight but would like to sample a few, here are my very favourite ones. My absolute favourite is the third of these six, with number two, the one on its left, running it pretty close. Number two is unusual in being an interior shot of a couple of my friends, and in featuring two cameras rather than the more usual single camera.

And here are the best of the rest:

Earlier this month, I snapped a snap off the telly of Abby and Brittany Hensel taking a snap of themselves, for their driving licence(s). Abby and Brittany are the world’s only known dicephalus conjoined twins, and they were featured in “Extraordinary People: the Twins who Share a Body”, on Channel 5 on Monday February 19th.